Using Vista Home Premium with Office 2007. I have created a PowerPoint
presentation with many hyperlinked images but when I view the hyperlinks, the
default image viewer is Internet Explorer. I am not able to change the
viewer to anything else. I have already tried setting the default image
viewer to something else in Vista. Works from Windows explorer but not from
PowerPoint? Any ideas????

GIS guy

How did you create the hyperlinks?

What are you trying to achieve by hyperlinking to images?

cheers
TAJ Simmons
Microsoft Powerpoint MVP

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"GIS guy" <GIS (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1492C9FF-A093-4BF2-9E8F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Using Vista Home Premium with Office 2007. I have created a PowerPoint
> presentation with many hyperlinked images but when I view the hyperlinks,
> the
> default image viewer is Internet Explorer. I am not able to change the
> viewer to anything else. I have already tried setting the default image
> viewer to something else in Vista. Works from Windows explorer but not
> from
> PowerPoint? Any ideas????

I have created the Power Point presentation in Power Point 2007 and have
created hyperlinks in the presentation. I am putting on a 6 hour class and
am hyperlinking images (.gif & .jpg) so I can better explain my points I am
trying to get across. I have quite a few hyperlinked text in the
presentation. I created the presentation on my desktop pc using XP (which
works great in XP) and PowerPoint 2007 but I need to put it on my laptop that
has Vista Home Premium and PowerPoint 2007. Again, the links open up in XP
using the Windows Picture & Fax Viewer but when I open the links up using
Vista on my laptop it uses Internet Explorer to open up the image links. I
know that Vista does not contain the Picture & Fax Viewer anymore, it is now
Windows Photo Gallery. I like the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer because it
opens the images at full zoom where the Photo Gallery open up the images in
their design resolution sizes so then you have to mess around with zooming
in/out to display it nicely. The Vista Internet Explorer option keeps
opening up a new tab for each image link opened. So you basically have to
Exit out of Internet Explorer each time it opens an image up in it or if you
get around 5 open tabs, it slows down and malfunctions, not what you need in
the middle of a 6 hour presentation. Where as the Picture and Fax Viewer
replaces the opened image link with the next one when the link is initiated
leaving you with one viewer open instead of many internet explorer tabs. I
need to find a solution quickly here... Any advice would be great!

"TAJ Simmons" wrote:

> GIS guy
>
> How did you create the hyperlinks?
>
> What are you trying to achieve by hyperlinking to images?
>
> cheers
> TAJ Simmons
> Microsoft Powerpoint MVP
>
> http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com
> awesome - powerpoint templates,
> powerpoint backgrounds, free samples, ppt tutorials...
>
>
> "GIS guy" <GIS (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1492C9FF-A093-4BF2-9E8F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Using Vista Home Premium with Office 2007. I have created a PowerPoint
> > presentation with many hyperlinked images but when I view the hyperlinks,
> > the
> > default image viewer is Internet Explorer. I am not able to change the
> > viewer to anything else. I have already tried setting the default image
> > viewer to something else in Vista. Works from Windows explorer but not
> > from
> > PowerPoint? Any ideas????
>
>
>

I would like it to act like it does in XP when accessing linked images.
Although the Windows Picture & Fax Viewer is not available in Vista, I would
like Vista's Windows Photo Gallery software to be used when opening
hyperlinked images instead of it always defaulting to an Internet Exporer
window to use as the image viewer. I have tried to set the default image
viewer to Windows Photo Gallery and it then does default to the Windows Photo
Gallery when opening up images from, say, Windows Explorer; but it does not
default to Windows Photo Gallery when using PowerPoint 2007. Seems that
PowerPoint 2007 only can used Internet Explorer as it's image viewer for
hyperlinked images. Further advice would be great!

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

> In article <1492C9FF-A093-4BF2-9E8F-(E-Mail Removed)>, GIS guy wrote:
> > Using Vista Home Premium with Office 2007. I have created a PowerPoint
> > presentation with many hyperlinked images but when I view the hyperlinks, the
> > default image viewer is Internet Explorer. I am not able to change the
> > viewer to anything else. I have already tried setting the default image
> > viewer to something else in Vista. Works from Windows explorer but not from
> > PowerPoint? Any ideas????
>
> It's a known problem. I'm hoping to find out at least whether it's a bug or a
> deliberate (albeit rather odd) design decision.
>
> But in the meanwhile .. we know how to make it do what you don't want it to do.
> Tell us what you WANT it to do and let's see if we can figure out how.
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> PPTools: www.pptools.com
> ================================================
>
>
>

Thanks Steve - TAJ

Steve,

Seems like an good idea and yes, it looks much better but I would then have
to "alt-tab" to flip back to the main PowerPoint 2007 presenation each time I
want to go back to the main presentation from the image reference
presentation. Is there a way to hyperlink to separate images in a separate
PowerPoint presentation without having to scroll through ? The only way I
can see it is to put each separate image into a separate PowerPoint
presenation so I can avoid the "alt-tab" to flip back to the main
presentation. This does cause a little delay in the presenation because it
internally has to open up PowerPoint each time a separate image link is
opened. Any further ideas? Thanks!

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

> This doesn't seem to be specific to Vista or PPT 2007. For example, the same thing
> happens here if I have an Action setting, Hyperlink to: Other file, pointing to a
> PNG/JPG/GIF. It's not specific to the browser version either.
>
> We're trying to find out if there's anything that can be done about it.
>
> In the meanwhile, how about this as an alternative:
>
> Insert the image into a new PPT file. If you need to cycle through several images,
> put each on a different page in the PPT. Add any action buttons and/or end show
> buttons you need in order to be able to navigate through the presentation.
>
> Then instead of linking to the image from your main PPT, link to the PPT containing
> the image(s).
>
> If you want zoomed versions of an image, insert it once, add a duplicate slide, crop
> then enlarge the image and now you can go back and forth between the full image and
> the zoomed version (with it zoomed automatically to exactly the place you want).
>
> A bit workier, but I think you'll actually end up with a more professional looking
> presentation in the end.
>
> In article <F53D014E-7AA4-45D5-8876-(E-Mail Removed)>, GIS guy wrote:
> > I would like it to act like it does in XP when accessing linked images.
> > Although the Windows Picture & Fax Viewer is not available in Vista, I would
> > like Vista's Windows Photo Gallery software to be used when opening
> > hyperlinked images instead of it always defaulting to an Internet Exporer
> > window to use as the image viewer. I have tried to set the default image
> > viewer to Windows Photo Gallery and it then does default to the Windows Photo
> > Gallery when opening up images from, say, Windows Explorer; but it does not
> > default to Windows Photo Gallery when using PowerPoint 2007. Seems that
> > PowerPoint 2007 only can used Internet Explorer as it's image viewer for
> > hyperlinked images. Further advice would be great!
> >
> > "Steve Rindsberg" wrote:
> >
> > > In article <1492C9FF-A093-4BF2-9E8F-(E-Mail Removed)>, GIS guy wrote:
> > > > Using Vista Home Premium with Office 2007. I have created a PowerPoint
> > > > presentation with many hyperlinked images but when I view the hyperlinks, the
> > > > default image viewer is Internet Explorer. I am not able to change the
> > > > viewer to anything else. I have already tried setting the default image
> > > > viewer to something else in Vista. Works from Windows explorer but not from
> > > > PowerPoint? Any ideas????
> > >
> > > It's a known problem. I'm hoping to find out at least whether it's a bug or a
> > > deliberate (albeit rather odd) design decision.
> > >
> > > But in the meanwhile .. we know how to make it do what you don't want it to do.
> > > Tell us what you WANT it to do and let's see if we can figure out how.
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------
> > > Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> > > PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> > > PPTools: www.pptools.com
> > > ================================================
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> PPTools: www.pptools.com
> ================================================
>
>
>